#TestDrive

I still laugh with glee at Looney Tunes vignettes, especially those with the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. How do you stifle a snort when the mangy Coyote paints a stunningly accurate painting of a tunnel into a rock wall, which the Road Runner can run through, but the hungry mammal can’t? Or when his infatuation with catching the bird results in the most nonsensical, obscure gadgets from the ACME corporation?

So many companies seem to be dropping wagons from their lineups in favor of crossovers, so it’s refreshing to get into a proper wagon that lives up to all the clichés we longroof aficionados use to defend them: The 2017 Volvo V90 looks better, drives better, carries as much stuff as any average family needs.

Of all the comparisons we planned for the 2017 Honda CR-V, the Mazda CX-5 might just be its toughest test.

“This doesn’t feel like a crossover,” I thought while lightly sawing at the 2018 Hyundai Kona’s steering wheel. There was unexpected heft and it actually communicated with me, unheard of traits for such a small and ostensibly affordable front-drive CUV.

On paper, the 2017 Honda CR-V appears to be the perfect vehicle for our family.

Uncertainty is a key source of stress in the used-car shopping process, and smart shoppers take effective steps to avoid it. Recently, we published this story on  how to test-drive a new car like a pro.

It may be the most civilized, street-capable Lamborghini ever, but it can also leave you feeling like you just walked off a swirling amusement park ride after leg day at the gym.

In case you were out of town last week or otherwise incapacitated by some sort of mysterious food-borne illness, the news cycle was dominated by Pebble Beach; in fact it practically overwhelmed all of  AutoGuide.com.

You wouldn’t buy a pair of shoes before you made sure they fit your feet, so why would you purchase a car without a test drive? According to a Maritz Research study,  11.4 percent of new car buyers did not take a test drive before purchasing their vehicle.

Chevrolet is using social media as a “sampling source”, so if you’ve got some pull on social media hubs, you could be sampling the Chevy Sonic for three days.

Experiential ride and drive training programs offered by the Yokohama Tire Corporation have been an annual event for dealers, but now the company is thinking about opening up these events to the general public.